850-916-9139

American Residential Services, L.L.C. (ARS), based in Memphis, TN has numerous local subsidiary companies. Company names include ARS, ARS /Rescue Rooter, ARS HVAC, etc. They perform HVAC, plumbing, air quality and other services. They engage in telemarketing. In my case, upon my declining services from a local company, my phone number was apparently given to whomever calls from the 850-916-9139 number. I have been getting hang-up calls on nearly a daily basis for many weeks. Autodialers sometimes appear to be hang-up calls but I have tried to answer so many times I feel it is more of a harassment initiative, which strikes me as very poor business practice. If your number is on the national Do Not Call registry you can file a complaint here: https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx or you may wish to contact the company -- their website is http://www.ars.com/

I've gotten a call twice from ARS in the last month. First time they didn't say anything. So I hung up. This morning (July 23, 2010) they called again...some lady, asked for my husband by name and I told her that he was at work, this is his wife, could I help her?
She proceeded to tell me that she was calling to get me on a schedule for my heating and AC maintenance. I told her "I'm sorry, we are not with YOUR company." She was going to babble something else at me, and I just hung up.
I did an Internet search on the number (reverse phone look up) and found out that:

The phone number of 850-916-9139 is a landline, provider is Bellsouth and the caller is out of Santa Rosa, Florida.

If this is a ploy to get business ... or a scam, either way...it's stupid. I didn't stay on the line long enough for them to request any money from me..so I don't know what they are running or pulling. But it sure makes THIS company look bad.
I was going to email the company from the website on this, but after I saw that they wanted everything but my blood type...I decided not to try to email them. I did call the "branch" here and told them to remove me and why and that how they were conducting business is not good - it sounds like a scam. But it's not going to make any difference

Is anyone on probation for anything?

Called.  Left no message.

I contacted ARS about 1 month ago because my AC stopped working in the house I rent (the landlord lives in another state and asked me to find someone).  ARS was recommended by a co-worker.  However, after they came out, they wanted my landlord to make a decision immediately about spending around $5000 to replace the AC unit.  He told them to just repair it for now because he wanted a second opinion.  After I made the initial call, I told them it was my landlord's decision and they needed to speak with him.  The following day (or 2 days later), I received a call from the salesperson asking me what my landlord intended to do...I told him that he needed to discuss it with my landlord.  He said that he had left some messages for the landlord but had not received a return call (um, hello...that should tell you then that he doesn't want to speak with you)...anyway, they only had my number to contact me to let them in the house...ever since then, I am receiving calls from the number (850-916-9139)...I would not recommend contacting ARS for anything unless you want to be harrassed by telemarketers afterwards!!

repeated calls...I answer....no one speaks..annoying...Thanks for posting this info. Now I will  ignore.

Once a week get a call from them, no one answers.  I think I may have used ARS in the past for something... but would never recomend it now...

I used ARS recently.  They actually did good work repairing the A/C.  I'm not wild about the telemarketing side of things.  Had I known this would follow the repair I would have tried another company.

This number calls me at least once per week